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THE NARROW GAUGE- (ILLUSTRATED) N.G.I. No. 69. AUTUMN 1975 COPYRIGHT N.G.R.S. COMPILATION, EDITING, & ADVERTISING : Rich Morris, 193 Main Road, Longfield, Dartford, Kent. (Longfield 3792)

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N.G.I. 69 PLATFORM I

EDITORIAL

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N.G.I. 69, FEATURING:

CHEADLE MOSLEY GRAMMER SCHOOL AN 18in GAUGE 'STIRLING TRAMWAY. Colin Saxton 2 SINGLE' - R.G.Pratt 23 IN THE NEWS - "Go-Go" and "Foio" 8 RETROSPECT: WANLOCKHEAD IN DOWN THE DRAIN. Sydney A.Leleux 9 1931 - H.C. Casserley 24 LOCOS THROUGH THE ARCHES BALLYMENA & LARNE RAILWAY (Pictorial) 11 TIME AND FARE TABLES 1879. TRIXIE. Alan Keef 13 J.H. Smith 25 "N.G. SPECTACULAR": WESTERN BAGULEY - DREWRY No. 3686. ROAD, CORK IN 1900. Rodney Weaver 25 Walter McGrath Centre TRAMS IN BIRMINGHAM AND pages WEST GERMANY 26 NOCTURAL NARROW GAUGE - CORRESPONDENCE JUNCTION 27 Austria, Spain and Portugal - (A Ron Cox Pictorial) ... 18

OUR FRONT COVER :

TRIXIE, the brand new 2ft. gauge loco by Alan Keef, on steam trials on the . (Pete Nicholson)

N.G.I. 69 THE SMALL (Cheadle Moseley Grammar School Narrow Gauge Railway Society) COMPANIES 1969 - 1974 Gauge : 2ft. (orig) & 1ft Bins A SERIES DEVOTED TO THE 'PRESERVATION MOVEMENT' Situated : Nr. Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. by Colin Saxton

Your author at the controls of Double Deck horse tramcar No.1. At the old Moseley Hall School site; 2ft. gauge. (Courtesy "The Stockport Express")

The purpose of the Society has always been The history of the Society since narrow gauge two-fold. Firstly, to provide an interesting educational began in 1969 can be roughly divided into three project by means of which varied types of learning stages, the events within each being governed by situations may be created for boys, and secondly, to circumstances beyond the control of the Society, preserve and operate, in as near original conditions but nevertheless, making the organisation much as practical, industrial narrow gauge railway more of a challenge. equipment.

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STAGE ONE:- MOSELEY HALL SITE (Old School) 1969-1970.

By the time that I joined the teaching staff at us with a horse called 'Tim', and in return, we Moseley Hall in 1968, a move to new premises was operated for the first time at the Association Summer already decided, although the exact date was not Fair, one Saturday in July, 'Tim' arrived for driver known. Because of this, any narrow gauge activity training at 11 .OOhrs, and passengers were carried had to be of a light and temporary nature, and this throughout the afternoon. Although there were fact, plus a lack of finance, prompted the Society to difficulties, mainly due to lack of brake power, and consider horse traction. Although I had experimented seating accommodation, the day was a great a little with 10 Y.. ins. gauge, none of us really knew success, and proved beyond doubt that such a anything of the practicalities of true narrow gauge, project was feasible within the school. Garden Party and so we regarded this stage as a test bed, for Day has remained our big annual running event. All greater things to come, if we, and the authorities money taken on this day is donated to the school, concerned, thought the idea worth pursuing in which in return provides us with a small annual the future. grant. A restricted site was found, of about twenty by Flushed with success, in 1970 our thoughts turned four hundred feet on which was laid a single, almost to greater things, including a tram conversion to straight of 2 ft. gauge, pinned down to double deck, which we believe was the only one scrap timbers by bent four Inch nails; and it worked! running in the country, and our first attempt at The gauge was determined by the vehicle, in 1969 a scratch building a point with angle iron and nails, single deck open horse tram built on a brick drier which had to be seen to be believed, - yet worked! chassis, with ex chapel reversible benches for seating In the autumn of 1970, the horse tramway was and simple chain and wood block brakes. A very dismantled, as the move to new premises was now active and sympathetic Parents Association provided imminent.

3 N.G.I. 69

I STAGE TWO THE NEW SCHOOL SITE 1971 - 1972

Throughout the summer of 1970 I had been 1971 and 1972 saw two entirely different track searching for a locomotive as an ideal development layouts, each of about 350 yards, as we moved about of the original project, and in July, quite by chance, the site, dodging contractors spoil heaps, and new found not one but three, at Crowle brickworks in seeded areas. Also during this time we brought over Lincolnshire. The manager was very helpful, and the second diesel locomotive from Crowle, allowed us to camp on site, where track, and one and were given a Ransomes, eight hundred-weight locomotive, A Ruston four wheel diesel, was dis• petrol 'calfdozer,' ideal for dragging around track mantled, and carried over the Pennines in convoy, by sections. We also experimented with different minibus, Landrover, and small lorry. layouts and sizes of carriage. On each one we have fitted de-railment bars, which prevent the vehicle There was much more room at the new school for tracklaying, but landscaping was not complete, and dropping through the track if an accident occurs. It makes re-railing much easier, and is safer in so, once more, temporary tracklaying was begun, operation where small boys are involved. this time to 1 ft. 8 ins. gaige, dictated by the locomotive and spares that we had acquired.

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N.G.I. 69 4 C.M.G.S. Tramway. Driver & Secondman aboard No.1 MOSELEY (Ruston & Hornsby STAGE THREE:- PERMANENT LAYOUT 1973 - 354013 of 1953) 1ft8ins gauge. ONWARDS (Courtesy "The Stockport Express")

By the end of 1972, the school playing field was running order, and could welcome visitors. level, and seeded, and we were given permission to We hope, long term, to have our working industrial build around the edge of the site. We have, at narrow gauge museum. To this end, we are planning present, constructed about 350 yards of track, on a a tipping dock, and also have a small collection of brick and rubble bed, and are now constructing a industrial 10 !4 gauge chain-haulage quarry large running shed of about twelve by thirty feet. As tubs. the site is very open, and not supervised at weekends and holidays, we felt the need for covered accom• As an educational project we are as yet only modation for our stock, especially as we had by now scratching at the surface, the teaching possibilities acquired a third locomotive, a 'Simplex' are almost endless, and we do know that we are petrol unit. We aimed to have the shed complete by giving, as well as receiving, a great deal of pleasure Easter 1974, after which time we would be in true and satisfaction.

5 N.G.I. 69 STOCK LIST

Locomotives Works No. School No. Colour

Ruston Diesel. 20DL 354013 (1953) 1 blue Ruston Diesel. 11 /13H P 187057 (1937) 2 * reserved for electric and steam units 3 4 Ransomes 'Calfdozer" MG. 1781 5 blue Motor Rail Petrol (Simplex) 7066 (1938) 6 green

* We hope to have a varied selection of motive power, including battery electric, and steam, in order to show the basic workings of each : The Simplex locomotive has been given the number 6 as this was its original Northallerton No. of 1938 (We also have two Ransomes Ploughing units, Works Nos. TS 30 and TS 308)

Wagons School No. Colour

Hudson Side Tip 10 Hudson Side Tip 11 Hudson Side Tip 12 metal - red oxide Hudson Side Tip (mod to end tip) 13 wood - dk. grey Flat wagon on Hudson Chassis 14 Bunker wagon on Hudson Chassis 15

The Garden Party, 1972 Enthusiastic footplate staff on 4w diesel loco No. 1, MOSELEY (& happy travellers behind).

N.G.I. 69 6 Carria9es School No. I Colour

Wood frame and body on 8 seat, open 20 red Hudson wheels and axle boxes (W.B. 3ft 6ins) 6 seat, open 21 I + Brake comp Similar to above, but semi-open with roof. 22 (planned for 1974) semi-open with roof. 23 red+ (planned for 1974) semi-open with roof 24 wood (planned for 1974) semi-open with roof. 25 stain Enclosed luxury saloon, similar in size to above, based on single deck tram design with reversible seats, brake fitted. 26 (planned)

HAULAGE WAGONS (CHAIN) All 10~ins gauge.

DESCRIPTION ORIGIN

1. Oak body on Hudson wheels & Doncaster Brick Co., Balby, axle boxes Doncaster, Yorks. 2. Metal body on wood frame - Hudson Askern Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. North Bridge, wheels & axle boxes. Doncaster, Yorks. 3. Metal body with inside frame - Hudson J. & A. Jackson Ltd, Oversley Ford, Brickworks, wheels & axle boxes. Ringway, Nr. Manchester, Lanes. 4. Hudson wheels & axle boxes. Doncaster R.D.C. Cusworth Hall Museum, 5. on perm. loan to Doncaster, Yorks. 3ramma,r Sc.noel . l::.ra.Mw~ _: l'\T~ O"ward-... J: pa~h ~ l°''\1-t\ C..rf\pl&'II.: ~oo'-\.l.'i.

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7 N.G.I. 69 IN THE NEWS

A rarity indeed! - Britains last working Hudson 'Go-Go' Tractor, 36863 of 1929 pictured at work on 22/3/73 at Campbell Brick Co. Ltd, Barrow Hill Brickworks, Stsvetev, Derbys, where it succeeded a Motor Rail. (NGN78/17) Loco subsequently purchased for preservation by Michael Jacob and moved to Bampton, Oxon on 19.4. 75 - for overhaul by Alan Keef. (Narrotrack Ltd)

FOJO, Orenstein & Koppel 9239 the 2ft gauge 0-6-0WT imported from Pedorido in Portugal, working at the original site of the Creekmoor Light Railway, Nr. Poole, Dorset during Easter 1973. (NGN83/9). The entire railway has since been moved to new premises at Crock• way Farm, Nr. Frampton, Dorset but has not yet been put into operation there. (Pat Henshaw)

North Ealder Water Board, Barley, Lanes. Baguley 4-wheel diesel No.3002 of 1937, outside its shed at Barley, in the December 1973 snow, before removal for renovation by the Rossendale Forest Railway Society. (NGN.88/11). (P. Taylor)

N.G.I. 69 8 THE NARROW LINES OF INDUSTRY

DOWN THE DRAIN

by Sydney A. Leleux

Routine surface maintenance to Clayton battery electric loco No.5926 (1972) C. V. Buchan Ltd, Stoke Link Sewer, Hem Heath, Staffs (1ft 6ins gauge) (Sydney A. Leleux)

Sewage works railways have long been studied by either way through square holes in the lining. The NGRS Members. As a variation on this theme a small single track across the shaft divides into a loop party of N. Staffs area Members recently had the holding about eight skips either side of the shaft. At opportunity to examine a new sewer being con• each end of the loop, is a thick brick wall with a small structed by C.V. Buchan Ltd. for Stoke-on-Trent opening just large enough for a skip. The openings Corporation, under the direction of S.N. Mustow, can be closed by strong steel doors, so that this first F.I.C.E., City Engineer. This runs from Leek Road section of tunnel can be used as an air lock. Works, Hanley, to Strongford Works near If the tunnel passes through water bearing ground, Wedgwood's factory, four miles away. Where con• compressed air may be used to stem the inflow of ditions are suitable a trench is dug and 7ft diameter water. On this contract several sections were being precast concrete pipes laid in it, but on several excavated under a pressure of 10psi. The lowest sections the sewer has to be tunnelled. It was one of pressure possible is used, as working under com• these tunnel sections that we visited. pressed air has a number of complications, the least The tunnels are excavated both ways from five of which is that it takes five minutes to pressurise the 15ft diameter working shafts sunk in waste ground airlock. Legal requirements to safeguard the welfare along the route of the sewer. The shafts are about of the miners begin at 15 psi. Our section of tunnel 50ft. deep and lined with precast concrete rings. was being excavated under free air, but the airlock Around the shaft top are huts for offices, mess room, was there 'in case'. At another working shaft where stores etc., in addition to buildings housing the air compressed air was being used I noticed a puddle on compressors, and loco. battery chargers. The com• the surface bubbling vigorously as air leaked up pressors supply air for the power tools used under• through the ground. ground, and also for pressurising the tunnel if it is necessary to do so to keep out water. There is also a Each tunnel has its own battery electric loco• crane to hoist materials and spoil in the shaft, and a motive, so that there were ten 1ft. 6ins gauge hopper for loading spoil into lorries for disposal. The Clayton locomotives working on this contract. Each crane may be an ordinary tracked mobile one or the locomotive has a spare battery which is charged on hoist may be built into the end of the spoil hopper. the surface and then used to replace the run down Men descend the shaft on near vertical fixed ladders, one. Weekly loco. maintenance is carried out on which are protected from swinging objects on the the surface at the top of the shaft. The locomotive hoist by vertical planking. we tried had a surprising turn of speed even on the At the foot of the shaft the tunnels disappear first notch of the controller. Perhaps the speed was

9 N.G.I. 69 heightened by the poor light and the rattle of the In operation, the locomotive pushes the empty track in the tunnel? skips from the air lock loop to the face loop. The locomotive then runs to the full rake and returns to The party decided to walk up to the face. We had the shaft. A single locomotive can work on a % mile been warned it might be muddy, and they were right! long tunnel, only longer sections require an inter• We set off up the tunnel, which was lit by a naked mediate loop and a second train. At the shaft, loaded bulb every 20 yards or so. Soon the sleepers were under water, and then the rails too disappeared skips are pushed to the centre of the shaft and the under up to 2 inches of water. Stepping from sleeper bodies hoisted off for emptying at the surface. Each to sleeper - or tunnel ring to tunnel ring - was fine, so U-skip contains about a ton. The bodies have to be long as one did not misjudge one's step, as the invert carefully replaced, as the tracks are at only 2ft. 3ins. held about 9 inches of water and mud. The correct centres at loops and the wagons are 2ft. 1 in. wide ! procedure is to walk along a rail, holding one of the At the face, empty skips are pushed by hand to the tunnel pipes (compressed air or water drainage) for loading point, then pushed back to the loop. 1vhe balance. We were going downhill so conditions ground is soft two men with pneumatic spades dig gradually worsened. At intervals there was either a forward and two others load the skip with shovels, If pump at work (sounding just like a dentist's saliva blasting has to be employed an air operated front extractor!) or a clay wall was thrown across the rails loader is used. Exhaust air is used to ventilate the and a man was bailing out the mud from the invert workings. In good ground a 10ft. heading may be into a skip with a bucket. dug and then the five tunnel rings assembled At length we reached the face. Here, of course, together. In poor ground a ring is assembled as soon the work gradually advances, at about 1 Oft / shift, so as possible. The sections weigh about 1 Yi cwt. each provision has to be made for moving all the support and are erected entirely by hand. At intervals the equipment forward. There has to be a loop to hold space between the lining and virgin ground is filled empty and full skips, and a short siding for the by cement grout forced in under pressure. grouting wagon. All this trackwork is welded on steel When the tunnel is finished the hollows in the plates, each 12ft. x 4ft. On the underside of the sections are filled with concrete blocks to give a plates are steel guides which fit over the main tunnel smooth lining. Occasionally variations in the rock track. A ramp rail at each end leads from the tunnel cause extra shockwaves when blasting so that the track to the steel platform, this being winched end rings are damaged and have to be replaced. forward as necessary. A short distance further on the Rolling stock is mainly U-skips, with some flat tunnel ended. Permanent track in 12ft. lengths is laid underframes to carry lining blocks. Wheels are free as soon as possible, but to avoid laying and relaying on their axles to ease movement on the curves, at short lengths of track as the face advances a tempor• places which may be as little as 12ft. radius. ary sliding section is used until a full length is laid. These sliding sections consist of a pair of 12ft rails on It is hoped that these notes may show some of the their sides, spaced by a number of steel sleepers problems associated with these temporary mining welded to the heads. The webs of the sliding rails railways and the men who work them, in 12 hour rest on the heads of the permanent track so the track shifts. I am most grateful for the facilities given by can be easily moved forward. The skip's wheels run Messrs. C.V. Buchan Ltd. to inspect their contract inthe web too. and for permission to publish this description.

N.G.R.S. N. Staffs area visit30.9.72. The party underground & inspecting Clayton 5792 (1970), a 1ft 6ins gauge four wheel battery electric. (Sydney A. Leleux)

N.G.I. 69 10 NARROW BAUCE P/CTOR/Af ~~~~~~~~i~GH

In . L/anberis Lake Railway ( 1 ft 11 Y:, ins gauge) DOLBADARN, Huns/et 1433 of 1922 0-4-0ST. Steam raising and preparatory work being performed prior to the first run of the day. Outside the Gi/fach Ddu workshops, L/anberis, in 1972. (E.N. Knea/e)

In . 3ft gauge Motor Rail 'Simplex' 72HP 4wDiesel No.60.S.393 entering one of the tunnels at the Edmund Nuttall Foyers Con tract, Inverness-shire 10.6. 71. (NGl.61/16) (Pete Nicholson)

11 N.G.I. 69 "LOCOS THROUGH THE ARCHES" continued

Scotland again . Barclay 1871 of 1925, 2ft. gauge 0-4-0 Wing t Tank, hiding inside a gloomy retort house at Wales as well . Scottish Gas Board, Granton Gasworks. Nr. Ruston 444207, a 1961 built Edinburgh on 26.12.67. Loco subsequently to 48DLU class 4wDiesel of 1ft. Dr. R. P. Jack of Eddleston, Peebles for 11 ~ ins gauge, fully restored preservation. (Pete Nicholson) and fitted with a new spacious cab by Member Tony Hills. It stands outside the former loco shed and is framed by an archway at Gi/fach Ddu, Uanberis. (Pete Nicholson)

...... and in the U.S.A. 3ft gauge East Broad Top Rail• road No.12, Baldwin 37325 of 1911, a 2-8-2 tender loco, viewed here standing on the turntable at Orbisonia shed. (C. M. Whitehouse)

N.G.I. 69 12 by Alan Keef TRIXIE Illustrated by Pete Nicholson

COTE OPEN DAY. Brand new and gleaming, first time on the track, 12.9. 74.

Many people for many years have been discussing It was at this stage late in 1973, that a chance the pro's and con's of building a brand new 2ft. converstion at Bala produced the possibility of Bala gauge and Mr. Trevor Barber, Lake Railway taking the prototype on special terms if formerly manager of the Whipsnade & Umfolozi it could be produced for the 1974 season and if Railway, and myseif were no exceptions. We both steaming and other trials were satisfactory. Suddenly thought that it could be done, which was in any case we were in business. obvious, and second that it could be done at an Work then proceeded apace and all manner of bits acceptable price, which was not quite so easy. and pieces of the new locomotive took shape. So So 1972/3 were spent by Trevor on the drawing also did a sizeable crop of gremlins; mostly to do board coupled to many long telephone calls and with the boiler; starting with a long wrangle with general discussions as to type, general arrangement Lloyds and finishing with the company who had the and particularly saleability, as we both realised that it contract to build it, going bankrupt! We have all would have to be built for a customer, as neither of experienced otherwise good engineering firms taking us could afford it merely for our own amusement. I fright at the mere mention of rails and this produced did a little bit of advertising, and a lot of talking and its own set of problems on the mechanical side. to prove we meant business Trevor had the frames All this satisfactorily delayed construction so that fabricated. Now we actually had some hardware it was September 5th 1974 before she was standing which was part of a new - a brand new - on blocks with steam up and the wheels going round locomotive. but she worked.

13 N.G.I. 69 This was followed by an open day at Cote for members of the Society of Environmental Improve• customers and friends which proved that not only ment and could they borrow TRIXIE for an open day did the wheels go round but that she also moved at their Centre of Alternative Technology to be along the track. This was shortly followed by transfer attended by no less a person than H.R.H. the Duke to Bala where the main steaming trials took place. of Edinburgh ! ! This duly took place on October 30th On this superb track it was really possible to put the 1974 although firing on the compressed straw pellets locomotive through it's paces. Following much provided, was rather less than successful. fiddling with the valve setting and brick arch in the It was here that TRIXIE was seen by a Mr. Street firebox there was a spectacular trip 2 miles out and 2 of Meirion Mill, Dinas Mawddwy who had a tentative miles back including Y. mile of 1 in 70 at the very proposal for a railway withing the grounds of his end, and on arrival it was necessary to turn on the woollen mill, as an added attraction to visitors to that injectors to prevent her blowing off. establishment. Negotiations proceeded and now a However due to the late delivery and an increase in completely new railway is nearing completion with costs due to inflation, the Bala Lake Railway decided TRIXIE as its main attraction. We all wish her well not to purchase. But there was still some glamour in and will be interested to see how she stands up to store. . . . The open day had been attended by regular work.

IN VERY SELECT COMPANY. Being inspected by H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh at the Centre of Alternative Technology, Uynqwern Quarry, Nr. , 30.10. 74. (Photo. by Alan Keef)

N.G.1.69 14 Mechanical Details. costs are high, and also of the weather sheet, but then some of us have fond memories of Kettering Furnaces! A design with a full cab is available as also is a large boiler 0-4-2 for longer hauls. Side tank, Cylinders 6" x 9" Length 11' O" tender etc., are all variations on the same basic Wheels 1' 8" dia. Width 4' 9" theme - perhaps one day an American 4-4-0 with Wheelbase 3' O" Heighth 7' 6" double bogie tender ..... Weight (empty) 4 tons 15cwt. So there she is, if you fancy one the price will be The design is very obviously a cross between the about £10.000 and delivery 9/12 months. Of Kerr Stuart 'Wren' class and the Bagnall such as incidental interest is a recent serious enquiry from Teddy Bostons 'PIXIE', although it is possibly more overseas for industrial use, which would be quite a powerful than either. Future editions will have the turnup for the book!! boiler and cylinders moved forward slightly to better equalise the springing and give greater footplate space. The Hackworth gear works quite satisfactorily although it would not suit a pundit of valve setting. Walschaerts gear would be nice but it is very doubtful if the extra cost could be justified in relation to the type of work an engine of this class will do. The boiler is of traditional 'launch' pattern welded throughout and even on mediocre coal steams like a wild thinq, Twin Penberthy injectors are fitted together with two gauge galsses and a displacement lubricator. Mechanical lubrication would obviously be desirable on longer runs. There has been some controversy over the chimney which should be tapered, but then pattern

WHEEL SPIN. Builder Trevor Barber trying to get to grips with grassy rails : Cote Farm 12.9.74.

"CENTRE PAGE SPECTACULAR"

Western Road, Cork, 1900 - Cork Electric Tramways No.18 and steam hauled train of the Cork & Muskerry Light Railway, running on ·their parallel but unconnected 2ft 11 Yz ins/ 3ft. gauge tracks in the suburbs of Cork city. As Mr. Henry Casserley says in his 1974 book "Outline of Irish Railway History" - this situation was unique in the British Isles'. The C.&M.L.R. closed 31.12.34. (Collection. Walter McGrath)

BACK VIEW. This gives a good idea of the backhead and firebox arrangements.

15 N.G.I. 69

NARRDI GAUCI lnternatii onal

NOCTURNAL ... NARROW GAUGE From the camera of Ron Cox

INDIA: Southern Railway, 2ft 6ins. gauge. E5. class No.506 (Kerr Stuart 4-6-2 of 1922) at Helahanka shed, February 1973. (D. Trevor Rowe)

AUSTRIA - STEYRTALBAHN 760mm gauge 0-6-2T No.298.51 (Krauss 3709 of 1898) at Garsten.

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SPAIN - Ponferrada Villablino Railway. Metre gauge 2-6-0 'Engerth' No.19 (Krauss 7631 of 1920) at Ponferrada .

. . . . & 2-6-0T No.21 (Borsig 5032 of 1912) ex Ponferrada Works in June 1971.

19 N.G.1.69 ...... & 2-6-2T No.8, PON FER RADA (Baldwin 52682 of 1919) on Ponferrada shed, June 1971.

PORTUGAL - C. P. Metre gauge 2-6-0 No. £95 (Decauville 591 of 1910) at Viseu.

N.G.1.69 20 ...... & 2-6-0 No. EB3 (Esslingen 2191 of 1886) on shed at Oporto Boavista .

...... & an 0-6-0, No. E54 ( Esslingen 2348 of 1889) on Regua shed.

21 N.G.1.69 Ponferrada - Villablino again - 2-6-0 'Engerth' No.16 (Macosa 151 of 1956) at Ponferrada.

& the Steyrtalbahn again - 0-6-2T No.298.104 (Krauss 2256 of 1890) at Garsten.

N.G.I. 69 22 THE NARROWER GAUGES FEATURING THE 7 % in - 24in MINIATURES

We are now pleased to be able to release full details of the 'Historic Exhibit' referred to in N.G.1.60, page 7 ..... it was an 18in GAUGE STIRLING SINGLE

The more recent history of the 18in. gauge one-third scale model of a rebuilt Stirling Single, originally constructed by the Locomotive Engineering Class (which included the late Henry Greenly,) at the Regent Street Polytechnic in 1898, from parts supplied by W. G. Bagnall Ltd. by R. G. Pratt

Photographed at Bere Regis, Dorset, prior to application of 8 (!) coats of G.N.R. livery ....

On Thursday 1st. November 1973 the one-third Juby Ltd., Precision Engineers of the Alpha En• scale model 'Stirling Single,' leh Bedford & Jestys gineering Works, Ipswich, Suffolk. A new boiler and Sylvasprings Watercress Railway at Bere Regis in firebox were made by J. & W. Gower of Bedford, Dorset for a new lease of life on a private railway to (the last job undertaken by this firm I believe). By be laid by its new owner, Mr. Braithwaite of Fulbourn August 1969 I had removed from Suffolk to in Cambridgeshire. . There being no suitable line to which it This is the locomotive purchased nine years ago could be taken for trials in Somerset, the loco. was by me from the late Mr. A. L. Bird of Cambridge. It delivered to Bere Regis on the invitation of Mr. John had previously run on both the Fairbourne and Jesty the proprietor of the 'Sylvasprings' watercress Jayvvick Miniature Railways but had been much firm and associated railway at Doddings Farm, an neglected and could best be described as 'derelict'. engine shed and siding having been provided there in Its restoration was first undertaken by the now July 1970. The work then remaining to be done defunct firm of Frank Mortlock & Sons of Lavenham, included all boiler-feed arrangements, cab fittings Suffolk, but on the closure of that works consequent and painting. A satisfactory test steaming took place upon the death of the owner it was taken, in pieces, on 19th June 1973 and the painting in G.N.R. livery (having been stripped down to the bare frame), to followed. I subsequently heard that further steam the B.R. Ipswich M.P.D. but in just six months, this trials at the full 120-lbs. pressure had been conducted too was closed down and the remaining work, other at Fulbourn and the new owner was very well than the steam fittings, was undertaken by C. W. pleased.

23 N.G.I. 69 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

30 Dec. 1964 Purchased from the late Alan Lance Bird of Cambridge Locomotive taken to the works of Frank Mortlock & Sons at Laven ham, Suffolk, where it was stripped down to the 22May 1965 bare frames in preparation for total renovation 29May 1967 Death of Victor Mortlock Senior partner in Frank Mortlock & Sons and on the same day, death of A. L. Bird, (above) Oct. 1967 Works at Lavenham closed down and locomotive removed in pieces to B.R. Ipswich Loco. Running Sheds 25Jan. 1967 New boiler and firebox made for the loco. by J. & W. Gower of Bedford 20May 1967 Boiler Test and Inspection Report received B.R. Ipswich Running Sheds closed down; loco. in a partly erected state taken to the Ipswich works of April 1968 C. W. Juby Ltd. 30 Dec. 1968 Boiler delivered to Ipswich Engine shed erected at 'Doddings Farm' Bere Regis and siding made to connect with the system of the Sylvasprings July 1970 Watercress Railway there. 28July 1970 Locomotive arrived at 'Doddings' 19 June 1973 First steaming 1 Nov. 1973 Sold to Mr. B. Braithwaite of Fulbourn, Cambs and collected by him

& another 'Single' ...... at present in the workshop of Bob Timmins at Bewdley Station on the Severn Valley Railway. This 183/., in gauge 2-2-2 is dated at 1845 although its builder and history are not known. It was obviously built as a working loco and is fitted with inside Gooch valve gear. The dome and safety valve housing are solid brass castings nd the boiler is lagged with mahogany. Note the f/angeless driving wheels. It is now owned by Jonathan Minns of Hampstead, London who acquired it from the estate of the late Captain Hewitt of Anglesey. (NGN89/7) (Pete Nicholson) RETROSPECT WANLOCKHEAD MINING CO,WANLOCKHEAD, DUMFRIESSHIRE, SCOTLAND' GAUGE

Barclay 0-4-0WT WAN LOCK, at work in the lead mines of Scotland's highest village, 1380ft up in the Lowther Hills. ( Pictured 30. 7.31 by H. C. Casserley ).

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ITEM 35: BALLYMENA & LARNE RAILWAY HANDBILL TIME & FARE TABLES - 1879 {Courtesy: J.H. SMITH of BELFAST) With map of system superimposed

• r IP BALLYMENA i LAINU\AJLW A'i' ! TIME AND FARE- -TA- BL--ES- , l 11y.~",! .,.l879, ud nntil further Np~ . n u a t. t s TIii. Ill 011a11,n·•If .6T.. ALI,, IIT'..t..-JION'II.

30 miles of 3ft gauge in Co Antrim, N. Ireland. First passenger services 24.8. 78, the last on the Lame - Bal/ye/are section) on 3. 7.50.

EX WORKS . EX WORKS .... 1973 BAGU LEY-DREWRY LTD. No.3686 700mmGAUGE

The first three of a batch of 12 locomotives, (Nos 3686-3697) for Indonesia were exported, ex works 5th January 1973. Powered by a 60HP 4 cylinder Perkins diesel engine. Transmission hydraulic with two speeds in either direction. Weight 7 Tons. Livery dark green cab and bonnet, black frames, red beams. (Courtesy Baguley-Drewry Ltd, via Rod Weaver)

25 N.G.1.69 TRAM DEPOT

LEFT : 3ft 6ins gauge BIRMINGHAM CORPORA T/ON TRAMWAYS. Car No.616, in Steelhouse Lane on route No.2, (Erdington) during the 'Last Tram' celebrations in July 1953. ( Peter Shoe smith)

BELOW : Metre gauge CREFELDER STRASSENBAHN (W. Germany) Car No.93, as reconditioned and returned to service for special runs during the lines 75th anniversary celebrations in May 1970. (Michael Spel/en)

N.G.1.69 26 CORRESPONDENCE JUNCTION

Two items from ROD WEAVER . the 435ft high Fades viaduct in Southern France). NGl.67 /28 : Neither the Van Staadens nor the The third bridge to surpass Van Staadens is the Solis Mohaka bridges can claim to be the highest narrow Viaduct on the metre gauge Rhaetian Railways, gauge bridge in the world. There are three bridges at which stands 290ft above river level. So depending least, carrying 3ft 6in or metre gauge tracks which on one's acceptance to 3ft 6in gauge eligibility and exceed the height of the Van Staadens bridge apart one's interpretation of the height of a bridge built on from the Mohaka viaduct, and two of these are top of a natural bridge, the highest narrow gauge higher than the latter as well. bridge must be either the Zambesi or the Goktiek. The Gokteik Viaduct on the Lashio branch of the NGl.67 /13: With reference to those giant Baguley metre gauge Burma Railways is often described as wagons for Abadan, I have now established that the highest railway bridge of all, but although it they were intended to carry loads up to a maximum carries the line some 800ft above water level this size of 83ft long and 10ft diameter, round curves of claim is open to doubt because it is built on top of a only 95ft radius - roughly equivalent to working a natural rock arch; the bridge proper is only (sic) 350ft typical U.S. passenger coach up the Penrhyn tall. If one takes this lower figure then the highest Railway ! When dealing with a load some 20ft longer narrow gauge bridge must be the Zambesi bridge at than the platform, a match truck was coupled to Victoria Falls, 420ft above water level, (and the either end, not to carry any part of the weight,but to highest railway bridge on standard or broad gauge enable the wagon to be coupled to a locomotive.

Pictured by MIKE SPELLEN, 12.6. 72 :- .... this delightful little fireless 0-6-0 of the Kaolin Chemie, hauling a rake of four wheelers along the roadsides of Schwertberg, Nr. Linz, in Austria. Built by Floridsdorf (No. 3012) in 1930, to 600mm gauge.

MICHAEL JACOB sends us this remarkable picture of a crane-fitted American 'Brookville' 4w diesel (Works No. UD.18. UDR. 8860. ZI). It works on metre gauge tracks in and around Bolougne Harbour (Pants et Chaussees Service Maritime du pas de Calais, Digue Carnot) and is within less than five minutes walk of the Hoverport Terminal.

27 N.G.1.69 GEOFFREY MOORE writes . & from SYDNEY LELEUX .... I would be very interested to know if any reader has NG.I. 67/9: The 1ft 11ins gauge system at Hanley details of the locomotive depicted above. The Sewage Works fell out of use in the latter part of description given is that it is a former FERROCARRIL 1972, except for the section within the press house. ECONOMICO locomotive of 600mm gauge and was Sheppard - Meil/er containers are now unloaded put into service in 1909 on a line: F.C. URQUIZA Y onto rail tro!lies which are pushed under the presses. EFECTUABA that ran a distance of 178km along the The sludge is dropped into the containers which are banks of Lake lbera between the city of Corrientes then pushed outside for loading onto road vehicles and the district of Mburucuya in the Argentine. The which effect the disposal. The Lister locomotive is coaches behind the locomotive are a refreshment now used mainly on the 2ft gauge screening tip line. car, and a first and second class vehicle.

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